Mr Duncan Sinclair > Chambers of Charlie Cory-Wright KC and Richard Harwood KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Mr Duncan Sinclair

020 7832 1111 duncan.sinclair@39essex.com

Position

Competition law (damages claims before the CAT and the High Court; investigations); energy law including commercial and regulatory aspects; public law (judicial review) primarily. Recent cases (since 2013) include: National Grid v ABB, Lumsden v the Legal Services Board; Homesun and Friends of the Earth v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Capital Meters v National Grid (CAT). Other advisory work includes both for and against regulators, including the Competition Commission, Ofgem and Ofwat, for commercial disputes including for Carillion, RWE nPower and the Home Builders Association. Has been engaged in two investigations by the OFT, and four by other concurrent regulators in the past two years.

Career

Called 1996; Lincoln’s Inn. Former head of legal at Offgen for five and a half years; Lovells, Brussels; 39 Essex Street. Publications of note: co-editor, ‘Butterworth’s Competition Law Service’; numerous articles in the European Competition Law Review.

Languages

French.

Memberships

BIICL; Leander; UKELA; XI.

Education

Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning; Downing College, Cambridge (1994 MA, 1995 LLM).

Leisure

Chess, sailing.